Neil Young has eviscerated Donald Trump in new editorial urging Americans to “rise up” in the wake of the Minnesota ICE shooting. (Rolling Stone)
In a new op-ed on his website, the musician shared a post titled “It’s ICE Cold Here in America”, in which he took aim at the growing civil unrest in the country, which he sees as a result of the President’s “inept government” and lack of “conscience”.
“Wake up, people!” he wrote. “Today the USA is a disaster. Donald Trump is destroying America bit by bit with his staff of wannabes, people with no experience or talent, closet alcoholic wife beaters, inexperienced leaders who only know how to lie to keep favor with Trump’s falseness so they can hold their unearned positions in his inept government, a Congress full of Republicans acting like idiots with no conscience.
“It’s ICE cold here in America,” he wrote of their actions. “There was no ICE before Trump. No soldiers in the streets before Trump. Every move he makes is to build instability so he can stay in power… He knows nothing about love. He does not know you are. Use your love of life, your love of one another, your love of children and theirs and ours. Peacefully. Now.”
“He has divided us. How did we elect these creeps who have no spin, no values, no conscience, no way to save the USA.”
“We need to take Trump at his word,” Young continued. “Make America Great Again. It won’t be easy while he is trying to turn our cities into battlegrounds so he can cancel our elections with marshal law and escape all accountability.”
Neil Young has shared a new video titled “as time explodes,” which uses news footage to continue his critique of the Trump administration and tech billionaires, while also expressing support for the ICE and “No Kings” protests, Consequence reports.
With no lyrics, the nearly silent clip is set to a guitar instrumental that recalls his 2003 Crazy Horse track “Be the Rain.” The video opens with coverage of the White House’s East Wing demolition during the government shutdown before flashing a banner that reads, “The 1% ruins the world.” It then cuts to footage of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk on stage before displaying a tweet that reads, “The oligarchs gather & so starts the looting of America.”
From there, the video shows Musk wielding a chainsaw, Apple CEO Tim Cook visiting the White House, and Trump accepting a luxury jet from Qatar. It also includes scenes of the National Guard deployed to ICE protests in Los Angeles and Portland, coverage of Trump’s military parade, and closing shots displaying Young’s support for the “No Kings” protests.
